Privacy Policy

Last Modified: February 28, 2023

INTRODUCTION

UnderstoodNow.com, Inc. (“UnderstoodNow.com”, “us”, “our,” or “we”) has developed this Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) which details important information regarding the use and disclosure of user information collected on the Website, UnderstoodNow.com, which is owned and operated by UnderstoodNow.com.

UnderstoodNow.com provides this Privacy Policy to help make an informed decision about whether to use, continue to use the services provided by UnderstoodNow.com and/or assessed through the UnderstoodNow.com (“Services”). This Privacy Policy applies to your use of (1) the UnderstoodNow.com (however accessed and/or used, whether via personal computers, mobile devices or otherwise); (2) email or electronic catalogs and newsletters; and (3) any other means or applications in which you connect with us or our products and services. Each time that you access or use UnderstoodNow.com or our Services you signify that you have read, understand, and agree to be bound by the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the Privacy Policy, you must discontinue using the UnderstoodNow.com or Services.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected by: us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by us or any third party; or any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding our Website, your information and how it is treated. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Policy. This Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy for updates when you use the Website.

USE BY CHILDREN UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE.

The UnderstoodNow.com is intended for a general audience and is not directed or intended for children under thirteen (13) years of age. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from individuals under 13 years of age. If you are under 13 years of age, you should not register or provide Personal Information on the UnderstoodNow.com. If we obtain actual knowledge that a user is under 13 years of age, we will take steps to remove that user’s Personal Information from our records.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Connecting with the UnderstoodNow.com and Information Provided by You

User Information We may collect several types of information from and about Website users, including information:

• By which you may be personally identified, such as name, mailing address, e-mail address, and telephone number (“Personal Information”). Personal Information may be collected through your own Website inputs or through third parties.
• That is about you holistically, but does not identify you personally, such as date of birth, place of birth, business phone number, business mailing address or email address, race, religion, gender, ethnicity, age or non-specific age, geographic indicators. Such holistic information may be collected through your inputs into the Website, or through third parties; and/or
• About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and the pages of our Website you visit, and other usage details. Such information may be collected through cookies, web beacons, and other similar types of automated data collection technology.
• Further, we collect information directly from users when provided to us; may collect from third parties, such as our business partners; and will collect information automatically as you navigate through the Website. Note that some information such as usage details, IP addresses, and information collected via cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technology may be collected automatically. We retain personal information only for as long as necessary or useful and will retain and use information to the extent necessary or desirable for business purposes, to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce legal policies and agreements.

Contacting Us

When you provide us with information in connection with a particular activity or otherwise sign up for our Services or provide your contact information, including an email address or telephone number in connection with that activity, product or service, you agree that this action constitutes a purchase or inquiry establishing a business relationship with us. You expressly consent to our communicating with you about UnderstoodNow.com using the information you provided to us. You also attest that you have the legal authority over any telephone number you provide to us and can provide us with the authorization to contact you. This means we may contact you, in person or by recorded message, by e-mail, telephone and/or mobile telephone number (including use of automated dialing equipment), text (SMS) message, or any other means of communication that your wireless or other telecommunications device may be capable of receiving.

Social Media Platforms

If you use Facebook or other social media platforms or applications to interact with UnderstoodNow.com, the social media platform(s) may have a specific privacy statement that governs the use of Personal Information related to that platform or application. UnderstoodNow.com and any UnderstoodNow.com social media platforms or online tools, including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram (collectively, “social media channels”) are social media locations for users to connect to and learn about UnderstoodNow.com through information, pictures, and videos. The goal is to provide quality and up-to-date material about UnderstoodNow.com which we believe is useful and interesting and to our users.

AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGY.

We want our users to enjoy their experience while navigating our Website, and to ensure the best user experience each time. We may use automatic data collection technology to collect certain information about your device(s) and browsing activities and patterns. Specifically, we may collect details of your visit to our Website such as location data, traffic data, and other information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

Please note that the information we may automatically collect will include personal information or we may maintain or associate the automatic data with personal information we have collect in other ways or received from third parties. By collecting this information, we can improve our Website and such information enables us to estimate our audience size, user usage patterns, store information about your preferences, recognize you when you visit the Website, and deliver a product tailored to your needs.

A few of the tracking technologies that may be used to collect Usage Information include, without limitation, the following:

Cookies.

A cookie is a data file placed on a Device when it is used to visit the UnderstoodNow.com. We use cookies to collect information for record keeping purposes, to make it easier to navigate the UnderstoodNow.com. Cookies are stored on users’ hard drives. We use both “session ID Cookies” and “Persistent Cookies.”

Session ID Cookies: These cookies are used to store information while a user is logged into the Website and expire when the user closes his/her browser.

Persistent Cookies: Persistent cookies are used to make tasks like logging into the Website easier for returning users by remembering a user’s login information. Persistent cookies stay on a user’s hard drive from one session to the next.

Cookies may be used for many purposes, including, without limitation, remembering you and your preferences and tracking your visits to our web pages, merchant Websites and redemption of coupons. When you click on a coupon or an offer on the “UnderstoodNow.com an affiliate cookie will be set on your hard drive to track your use and redemption of the coupon or offer. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a persistent or session cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off such cookies through your browser settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you choose to disable cookies on your Device, some features of the UnderstoodNow.com may not function properly.

Web Beacons.

Small graphic images or other web programming code called web beacons (also known as “1×1 GIFs” or “clear GIFs”) may be included in our web pages and messages. Web beacons may be invisible to you, but any electronic image or other web programming code inserted into a web page or e-mail can act as a web beacon. Web beacons or similar technologies may be used for a number of purposes, including, without limitation, to count visitors to our UnderstoodNow.com, to monitor how users navigate the UnderstoodNow.com, to count how many e-mails that were sent were actually opened or to count how many particular articles or links were actually viewed.

Web Logs.

Like most standard Website servers, we log Device Identifiers and the operating system of your computer and may track your movement and redemption within the UnderstoodNow.com, the pages from which you were referred, access times and browser types in order to improve security, analyze trends and administer the UnderstoodNow.com. We use this information in the aggregate to gauge the effectiveness, usage, and popularity of our UnderstoodNow.com, track information for statistical purposes, help diagnose and troubleshoot server malfunctions, analyze trends, track user movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information and track traffic and sales to our partner merchants. We may also use individual information we collect through web logs to send you targeted offers and other communications.

Information We Collect From Third Parties.

We acquire information from other trusted sources to update or supplement the information you provided or we collected automatically, such as information to validate or update your address or other demographic and lifestyle information. We use this information to help us maintain the accuracy of the information we collect, to target our communications so that we can inform you of products, services and offers that may be of interest, and for internal business analysis or other business purposes.

Third Party Analytics Technologies.

We use third party analytics (ie. Google Analytics) to better understand who is using the UnderstoodNow.com, how people are using the UnderstoodNow.com and how to improve the effectiveness of the UnderstoodNow.com and its content, and to help those parties serve more targeted advertising to you across the Internet or help us serve more targeted savings to you. Those third party companies may use cookies, pixel tags or other technologies to collect and store anonymous information such as time of visit, pages visited, time spent on each page of the UnderstoodNow.com, Device Identifiers, type of operating system and browser used, Affiliate Referral URLs and other web Websites you may have visited.

If you would like more information regarding which third party companies we use to provide these services who may be serving cookies or other tracking tools on our UnderstoodNow.com or want to know more about your choices about not having this anonymous collected or used by these companies, please contact privacy@UnderstoodNow.com.

HOW WE USE AND SHARE YOUR INFORMATION.

Use of Information by Us.

We may use Information that we collect about you: (1) to provide you with information or process transactions that you have requested or agreed to receive; (2) to provide you with information regarding new features, products or services; (3) to improve the UnderstoodNow.com or our Services and to customize your experience; (4) to contact you with regard to your use of the UnderstoodNow.com and, in our discretion, changes to the UnderstoodNow.com and/or the UnderstoodNow.com’ policies; (5) for internal business purposes; and (6) for purposes disclosed at the time you provide your information or as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy.

We may disclose aggregated information about our users and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may disclose personal information either provided to us or collected from you as described in this Privacy Policy, to our subsidiaries, if any, affiliates, and third parties we use to support our business. For your safety and protection, these outside entities are contractually bound to keep your personal information confidential and use it solely for our business purposes as disclosed in a separate agreement.

Information may be released to comply with any court order, legal process, or to respond to a governmental or regulatory request. For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information to fulfill the obligations of our business.

Service Providers.

We may use third party service providers to help us operate our business and the UnderstoodNow.com or administer activities on our behalf. We may share your information with these third parties for those limited purposes.

Third Party Advertising.

We use third-party ad servers and ad networks to serve advertisements and collect information when you visit UnderstoodNow.com. These companies and the advertisers themselves may use information about your visits on other web Websites and UnderstoodNow.com in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. In the course of serving advertisements to UnderstoodNow.com, these third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your Device, the advertisements and links that appear on UnderstoodNow.com. They automatically receive your Device Identifier when this happens. They may also use tracking technologies to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content. We may also use information collected using third party cookies and Web beacons on UnderstoodNow.com to deliver advertising about our Services displayed to you on third party Websites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such advertisers, ad servers or ad networks. You should consult the respective privacy policies of any advertisers on UnderstoodNow.com to see your options for opting out of their use of such devices. In addition, some of the ad servers and ad networks may be members of the Network Advertising Initiative, which offers a single location to opt out of ad targeting from member companies. If you opt-out of receiving targeted ads on UnderstoodNow.com from ad servers and ad networks, you may continue to receive advertising and promotional messages after you opt-out, but it will not be customized or personalized to you based on your use of our UnderstoodNow.com and/or third party Websites. If you would like more information about advertisers’ use of tracking technologies and about your option not to accept the cookies used to track your activities and opt out, you can go to www.networkadvertising.org/choices. If you would like to learn more about how interest-based information is collected, whether the companies we use are part of an industry network regarding behavioral advertising and to know your choices about not having information used in this manner you can go to www.aboutads.info.

Legal Matters; Safety.

We may, without your consent, access and disclose your information, any communications sent or received by you (including, without limitation, the contents of any chat, messaging, or other communication posted in the Interactive Services), and any other information that we may have about you or your account as may be permitted or required by law (including, but not limited to, court order or subpoena), or to prevent or investigate suspected fraud, violations of our Terms of Service or activity that appears to us to be illegal or may expose us to legal liability. Additionally, we may disclose your information and/or communications in situations that we believe to be: (i) emergencies involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person or property if we believe that your information in any way relates to that threat; or (ii) your conduct on the UnderstoodNow.com or when using the Interactive Services that we believe is inappropriate and inconsistent with generally accepted norms of behavior.

CHOICE AND OPT OUT.

You may remove your information from our database so as not to receive future communications or to close your account or opt out of our sharing information with third parties for marketing purposes by emailing us at privacy@UnderstoodNow.com.

Please note that changes may not be effective immediately. In each event, you must clearly indicate the information that you wish to have changed or clearly indicate that you wish to have your personally identifiable information removed from our database. We will endeavor to comply with your request as soon as reasonably possible. Note that despite any request for removal of or change to personally identifiable information, we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and there may also be residual information that will remain within our databases and other records, which will not be removed or changed. Finally, we are not responsible for informing third parties (including without limitation our third party service providers or strategic partners) with whom we have already shared your personally identifiable information of any changes requested pursuant to this section, or for removing information from or causing information to be removed from the databases or records of such entities.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURES, PRACTICES AND CONTACT INFORMATION.

Links to other Website and Communities. To the extent hyperlinks may be utilized to access external or third party Websites and communities, you should be aware that these external or third party Website and communities are not controlled by us and, therefore, are not subject to this Privacy Policy. We recommend that you check the privacy policies of each such Website and community to determine how your personal information will be utilized by their proprietors.

Data Security.

To protect our users, we have implemented preventative measures designed to aid in securing your personal information from accidental loss and unauthorized use, alteration, access, and/or disclosure. All the personal information you provide to us is store on secure servers behind firewalls.

The safety and security of your personal information is also contingent on you. You must take reasonable measures to keep all passwords, whether given or chosen, confidential. You should be mindful of using public computers and internet networks to access the Website as we are not liable for any information that may be tampered with. Information viewed in public areas may be viewed by anyone.

Although we take measures to protect your personal information, we cannot promise the security of your personal information transmitted to and from our Website. The transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for the circumvention of or tampering with any privacy setting or security measure contained on the Website.